The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 47

He then took hold of him, and however unwilling he was, Christian had to go with him right back to the same little door that he had crept out at.

Who acts: man, Christian · What happens: take, unwill, be, have, go, creep out · To what, where: hold, same little door, Christian

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Christian), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 unwilling	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 unwilling	cc
9	however	however	ADV	_	10 unwilling	advmod
10	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 was	nsubj
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 unwilling	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
20	right	right	ADV	_	21 back	advmod
21	back	back	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 door	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 door	amod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 door	amod
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 crept	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 crept	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 crept	aux
30	crept	creep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 go	advcl
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 crept	compound:prt
32	at	at	ADP	_	30 crept	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	man	hold of Christian		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	unwill	gerund	man not said here				however property	tree rules
3	be	past	man					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	Christian					tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	Christian not said here		the same little door		with man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
6	creep out	past · perfect	Christian					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hold			Christian				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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